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Nuclear Modernization

Senior Pentagon Official Likes NNSA Warhead-Core Approach, Frustrated by Production Status

Friday, September 21st, 2018

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Senior Pentagon Official Likes NNSA Warhead-Core Approach, Frustrated by Production Status

Close up illustration of atomic particle for nuclear energy imagery

It would make sense for the Department of Energy to have more than one production facility for the fissile cores of nuclear warheads, a senior Pentagon official with broad responsibility for nuclear weapons procurement said Friday.“To me, it doesn’t quite make sense to go down to a single point of failure anywhere,” Peter Fanta, deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear matters, said at the Capitol Hill Club during a breakfast presentation hosted by the Air Force Association’s Mitchell Institute…

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